The Rat Survives!!!

[happyrat1]

It's been a harsh winter in Canada this year but still the musical spirit will not rest.

I give you my latest tune, The Rat Survives...

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https://soundcloud.com/happyrat1/the-rat-survives

Thanks for listening,

Enjoy

Gary

 

[CowboyNQ]

Very cool Gary. I particularly liked the way you layered the synth sounds at approx 0:30 and the little rundown at approximately 1:30.

 

[happyrat1]

Thanks Paul.

I've been doing so much work on remixes for bandcamp the past few months that it was nice to create something original and new today for a change.

It's nice to know that I haven't lost my chops yet.

Gary

 

[happyrat1]

BTW, synths used in this production included Kurzweil PC3K8, Studiologic Sledge 2.1, Novation Ultranova, M-Audio Venom, Behringer Deepmind 6 and Alesis SR-18.

Sequenced and recorded entirely under Linux using Cakewalk 9.01 Home Studio running under Wine Windows Emulator.

With the weather outside it's a good time to practice cocooning and work on my tracks

Gary

 

[Rayblewit]

I detected "keith emerson sound alike"
and you did a pretty good job of it.
It's a thumbs up rat.
Cheers
Ray

 

[happyrat1]

Thankee Ray

Gary

 

[Fishingmusician1]

How did the rat survive all that? Well it's good he did, nice sounds and listen.

 

[happyrat1]

The rat thanks you for your patronage and appreciation

Gary

 

[Biggles]

Great song and performance Gary.

Keep Destroying Eardrums.

Thanks for the info on what ket you used.

Cool video to go with the music, how did you create that?

 

[happyrat1]

The Video was created on Linux using ProjectM and Vokoscreen Video Capture Program.

On Windows there's a fork off the ProjectM software that goes by the name Milkdrop.

I thank you for the appreciative comments and strongly advise cranking up the bass when you listen this particular tune. Either use a good set of headphones or else a decent stereo system to catch the nuances of the harmonics.

Gary

 

[happyrat1]

BTW, it definitely pays off to have two or more Analog or VA synths in your setup since most of these suckers really cannot handle multitimbral MIDI output.

It makes for some really nice layers when you sync up a few.

Gary